Drinking yoghurt is a key growth-driving category for dairy sales in Asia Pacific. The product’s popularity is based on meeting demand for healthy snacks, and is fuelled by wide distribution, particularly ...

The fourth-largest region for cat food, Asia Pacific, is a varied region with plenty of potential, and indeed the fastest growth in value terms. More consumers have become aware of the importance of feeding ...

Asia Pacific is the world’s second largest savoury snacks market, following North America. The category is dominated by China, Japan and India, which account for more than three quarters of regional ...

Asia Pacific is a major region for dairy as the biggest market by value, although with the lowest per capita spending. While sales are primarily stemming from China, markets with large populations, like ...

Growth in sweet biscuits, snack bars and fruit snacks in Asia Pacific is driven by rising sales in China and India, where the category is not mature, and is supported by a resilient performance in Japan.The ...

Rice, pasta and noodles in Japan continued to post negative growth in 2017, falling by 2%, mainly due to the decline in the Japanese population and rapid decrease in sales of rice among Japanese consumers. ...

Breakfast cereals in Japan continued to grow further by 6% in retail value sales terms in 2017 after recording rapid growth since 2012. The sharp increase in sales is mainly due to the high performance ...

Cheese in Japan continued to post strong growth in retail current value terms in 2017, increasing by 5% to reach JPY402.6 billion. The demand for tsumami (light snacks that Japanese people nibble whilst ...

Gum continued to struggle in 2017, with retail volume and current retail value sales falling by 5% and 4% respectively to 27,700 tonnes and JPY110 billion. Gum sales have been falling for over a decade ...